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Undergraduate psychology students' experiences with creative drama: A qualitative multi-case study
(2015-12)
This qualitative multi-case study explored undergraduate psychology students' experiences participating in creative drama activities the instructor/researcher developed to teach psychological concepts. The study was conducted ...
Character strengths and well-being: Differences in social activity among college students
(2015-07)
There has been an increase in students seeking counseling services in universities, with depression and anxiety being the most prevalent presenting concerns. Previous research indicates that the use of character strengths ...
Informing early childhood policy: An analysis of the sensitivity of a school readiness risk index to changes in indicator selection
(2015-05)
The importance of school readiness to both the future of an individual child and society as a whole has given rise to several state-specific indexes designed to measure county-level risk for starting school unprepared to ...
Effects of two reading interventions with small-groups of second grade English Language Learners on fluency and comprehension
(2015-07)
The study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the HELPS-SG curriculum and a small group repeated reading (RR) intervention on oral reading fluency and comprehension. The participants of this study ...
Time with college graduates, family member academic level, and time spent in federal TRIO programs as predictive factors of higher GPA in post-secondary education among ethnic minority college students
(2015-07)
The purpose of this study was to explore academic success as measured by Cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) among ethnic minority college students across the United States. The three predictor variables used for this ...
Multicultural teaching competence and teachers' attitudes toward inclusion
(2015-12)
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between multicultural teaching competence (MTC) and teachers' attitudes toward inclusion. Specifically, this study tested whether MTC has an influence on ...
Frenzy: A psychological distance account of rumination, mood, and creativity
(2015-05)
A reflective style of ruminative response to negative mood, as opposed to a brooding style, is linked to creativity (Verhaeghen, Joormann, & Aikman, 2014), especially when indecision is high (Cohen & Ferrari, 2010). In ...
Effects of emotion socialization and parenting style on eating disorder symptomology
(2015-07)
The prevalence of eating disorders has been increasing across the last few decades (Hoek and van Hoeken, 2003), yet the reason behind this increase is not clear. Previous research has examined the influences of family ...